Finding our links in History - One Genealogist's thoughts, tidbits, and inspirations - All very much randomly posed.
One person's life does not stand-alone but interacts with family, neighbors, community, and history. Our Trees become Tangled just by living. --
T.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

The Canadian Naturalization database contains references to people who applied for and received status as naturalized Canadians from 1915 to 1951. Here I found Anna Stosz listed with her husband and 2 sons.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Available in both the Android & iPhone/iPad markets, this free Family Search app displays image snippets from historical documents that contains a name, date, place-name, or other relevant information. You simply transcribe what you see in the image, and the FamilySearch indexing system eventually adds it to the collection of free genealogy records available at www.familysearch.org.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Virgil Lee
Casteel, age 79, of Shelbyville, died Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at Middle
Tennessee Medical Center. Memorial services will be 2 PM Sunday, March 18,
2012, at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel. Visitation will be one hour prior to service
Sunday. Feldhaus Memorial Chapel is assisting the family with the arrangements.

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Virgil Lee
Casteel December 13, 1920 - September 16, 2009:Casteel, Virgil Lee, 88, passed away Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at
the Medical Center of Manchester and went home to be with the Lord after an extended
illness. He was a life long farmer and producer for certified soybean seed. He
was the son of the late W.E. (Ed) and Tillie A. Casteel. He was preceded in
death by two brothers, General L. Casteel and Buford K. Casteel and one
grandson, Ryan L. Casteel. He is survived by his loving wife of sixty-five
years, Mildred Newman Casteel and three sons, Kenny (Connie) Casteel, Eddie
Casteel and Benny Casteel; five grandchildren, Jason, Jessica, Gina, Nathan and
Nicole; four great-grandchildren, Cade, Rebecca, Aliyah and Alayna; two
sister-in-laws, Ollie Mae (General) Casteel of Hillsboro and and Chieko
(Buford) Casteel of Nashville; nephew, Douglas (Dianne) Casteel of Monteagle;
and niece, Kathy Casteel of Chicago, Illinois. He was a charter member of
Trinity Baptist Church. Visitation with the family will be Friday from 5-9 PM
and the funeral will be Saturday at 2 PM at the Manchester Funeral Home with
Brother J.C. Carpenter officiating. Interment will be at Rose Hill Memorial
Gardens. Manchester Funeral Home in charge of arrangements

The project is a growing collection of records related to the desegregation of public and private schools in Virginia, grades K-12 and institutions of higher education covering the time span of the mid-1940s to mid-1980s. Papers, photographs, newspapers, audio-visual materials, and oral histories related to school desegregation are actively being documented for this collection.ODU has a publicly available on-line catalog of surveys of repositories relevant to this project.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Years ago I ordered the microfilmed church records for Oszlop, Veszprem, Hungary, from the Family History library and laboriously went through them trying to locate records related to our Bauman ancestors & associated family.
Now, much to my excitement, they are transcribing these microfilms making the information available at familysearch.org. Woohoo!

With 309 initial search results based just on Bauman's in the town of Oszlop, it looks like I have some fun times ahead!

Index of baptisms of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary. Church records are the property of the state and are stored in the archives of the various Hungarian counties under direction of the National Archives of Hungary [Országos Leveltár] in Budapest. Included in this collection are some baptism records from localities which historically belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary, but because of changing political borders now belong to other countries. Records may appear in Hungarian, Latin and German.